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NOTE: The grate is necessary to filter out nasty creatures that might otherwise come in with the water.  Keep in mind that a wall grate can be destroyed by a swimming building destroyer, so you may want to keep the floodgate in front of it closed when water is not needed.
 
NOTE: The grate is necessary to filter out nasty creatures that might otherwise come in with the water.  Keep in mind that a wall grate can be destroyed by a swimming building destroyer, so you may want to keep the floodgate in front of it closed when water is not needed.
 
An easier method is to find a location where the cave river falls for more than three z levels and simply build a screw pump to suck the falling water from midair.
 
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        <- Empty room which will be used to farm.
 
##╬%╬## <- Screw pump with doors on each side to keep the water from possibly washing the pumping dwarf into the river.
 
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##~~~## <-- Water is falling here.
 
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